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The Tugunbulak settlement was inhabited between the 6th and 11th centuries. (Simon Norfolk)

Archaeologists May Have Found the Lost Iron City of the Silk Road in the Remote Highlands of Uzbekistan

Researchers are uncovering what they think is the metropolis of Marsmanda, an iron-making city that could rewrite the history of the famed trade route

By Andrew Lawler Photographs by Simon Norfolk

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